Housing collections

[Scott Stevens]

On Thu, 29 Dec 2005 16:38:49 -0700
Richard <legalize at xmission.com> wrote:

> 
> In article <20051229174216.6da02a4f.chenmel at earthlink.net>,
>     Scott Stevens <chenmel at earthlink.net>  writes:
> 
> > I have had a TERRIBLE problem with mice out in the garage.  I've
> > learned that you NEVER put a PC out there without blank card
> > brackets in ALL open card slots and drives installed in ALL open
> > media holes. [...]
>  
> This reminds me of an Apple ][ that was brought in for repair... these
> didn't have any real barrier in the back of the case where the slots
> were.
> 
> Inside was a mouse nest :-)

I worked for a business once where a whole bunch of the operating
PCs on the network got infested by mice.  It's nearly the perfect
environment for a mouse house.  A decent amount of heat being
generated, small secure openings to get in and out....  Let's
just say that mouse urine and the copper traces on circuit cards
don't coexist very well.  I'm pretty sure a friend of mine used
the ISA slot section bandsawed out of one of those systems as a
passive backplane in one of his homebuild PCs.